Saturday, February 19, 2011

Family Tree

For Christmas this year my sister-in-law, Heidi, gave our mother-in-law, a BEAUTIFUL FAMILY TREE! She used this template from Martha Stewart's website...

I decided I wanted to make one for my mom's birthday this year & googled "Family Trees" and found SEVERAL options! I fell in love with this SPLIT FAMILY TREE idea and knew that since my brother Rob is an amazing CUSTOM FRAMER, he would be able to frame it just how I wanted!

I googled "Vinyl Family Trees" and found the following split image. If it hadn't have been split, I could have easily Cropped the image in half if needed. I imported this image into my MAKE THE CUT program & then adjusted it slightly. I made the leaves the size I wanted, added some leaves to give me the amount of generations I wanted & added some falling leaves for their kids.

After I got it just the way I wanted, I printed it out on Chocolate Brown Vinyl. I also added a place for my parent's names at the base of the Trunk & 7 falling leaves to represent their 7 children's names...

Then I printed all of the names I needed & made a PATTERN to trace around the names, to get the SHAPE I wanted!

I used photo adhesive squares to stick my WHITE CARDSTOCK NAMES to the VINYL...

and then I applied the vinyl to WHITE MAT BOARD, that would later be framed...

My brother Rob framed it beautifully in a classic brown frame...

and I LOVE how it turned out. I wanted a MODERN LOOK, but it also serves the purpose to show the genealogy of my family! I think hung side by side, it will look beautiful in my parent's home!

Questions on how I completed this project??

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Have you ever made a FAMILY TREE? If so, please share the link...I would LOVE to see them!

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Beautiful Family tree! You are inspiring me to make yet another one, and I do make quite a few!Here is a link to one of my latest ones, which might just be my favorite (for now;)): http://preservingheritage.blogspot.com/2011/10/very-colorful-family-tree.html